From 3c9cd4f156018aea3d10dbf02be529e85c05eb66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon McVittie Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 18:13:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Explain tab-delimited tables a bit better --- doc/bugs/Tab_delimited_tables_don__39__t_work.mdwn | 2 ++ doc/ikiwiki/directive/table.mdwn | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/bugs/Tab_delimited_tables_don__39__t_work.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Tab_delimited_tables_don__39__t_work.mdwn index 278826ea0..39d57a4fe 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/Tab_delimited_tables_don__39__t_work.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/Tab_delimited_tables_don__39__t_work.mdwn @@ -18,3 +18,5 @@ alpha beta """]] > > So, I think this can be considered [[not_a_bug|done]]? --[[smcv]] + +>> I've clarified the documentation. --[[smcv]] diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/table.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/table.mdwn index 2dac97724..a6692f92c 100644 --- a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/table.mdwn +++ b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/table.mdwn @@ -42,4 +42,9 @@ cells. For example: as the table header. Set it to "no" to make a table without a header, or "column" to make the first column be the header. +For tab-delimited tables (often obtained by copying and pasting from HTML +or a spreadsheet), `delimiter` must be set to a literal tab character. These +are difficult to type in most web browsers - copying and pasting one from +the table data is likely to be the easiest way. + [[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]] -- 2.26.2